"In you, O Lord, I take refuge; let me never be put to shame. In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me and save me. Be to me a rock of refuge, a strong fortress, to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel. For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth. Upon you I have leaned from my birth; it was you who took me from my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of you." -Psalm 71:1-6
This is psalm that has been brought before me as a source of a plea for me during times that I cry to the Lord, when i doubt and wonder...How i can only imagine that this psalmist was facing major oppression, persecutions, loss and fear. How these words were his breathe of life as he faced others and his self. The whole verse is symbolic to me of his trust in the Lord, how the battle was brutal but he trusted his king. The feet of this warrior was mounted on a rock, not the sinking sand of the world.His heart was a mess but knowing that he could not do it with the Hand of the Lord.
I pray this not just for myself but for the people of hati,the nations, those who do not know Jesus, my friends and family, the orphans....